SHARE Foundation Update, September 28, 1999

This notice just in from SOA WATCH. September 23.

Conference Committee Rejects SOA Funding Cuts

On September 22, the House Foreign Operations Appropriations conference committee voted
8-7 to reject funding cuts to the SOA. This move effectively nullifies the July House vote
to cut SOA funding, and it also means that the Senate conferees will not take up the issue
of the SOA this year.

This setback does not affect HR732 and S873, the House and Senate bills that call for
the outright closing of the SOA. We have another whole year to gather enough co-sponsors
to bring these bills to a vote. If your Representative and Senators have not yet
co-sponsored, please ask them to do so.